Posted on 12/21/2015 9:31:06 AM PST by 11th_VA
On Sunday, The Blaze reported that former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., said the GOP is on the cusp of a revolution and the third American revolution has begun. He also warned that the "revolution" could get violent.
"I think that we've begun a third American revolution," he told The Blaze. "I think people who recoil against both parties and believe in freedom are finally rising up. They're angry -I mean, look at [Republican frontrunner Donald] Trump - and they want to do something about it. I think we're at the beginning of this, and I think you're going to see it play out in the Republican Party because there could be a split in the Republican Party."
Walsh said that conservatives, Tea Party members and grassroots activists need to start by cleansing the GOP. If that fails, he said, a new political party or movement could be on the horizon. Many grassroots activists -- those Walsh refers to as "revolutionaries" -- are extremely upset with the Party, especially after the GOP-led Congress gave President Obama everything he wanted in a recent budget deal.
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"Remember, revolution is a scary term. It implies violence; it implies open rebellion. People shouldn't be afraid because initially we're going to use the political system in this revolt to try to fight back."
"It's not going to get violent at first, but look, the two prior revolutions we had got violent - the American Revolution and the Civil War," he added. "Our founders believed that it may take violence to take back our country every now and then."
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Repeal the 17th, yes!
Uh-oh.... here comes a flock of wah-wah’s.
“Feel free to tell me how wrong my thinking is, I am used to it.”
You’re not wrong about anything you posted. It’s the same in my area. I believe the reason is that the population has been dumbed down to the point that it’s just a knee-jerk reaction to be a pacifist. I know that’s true with the younger members of my family. They simply can’t get their heads around the history of young people being absolutely desperate to get into the fray of fighting for their freedoms and their nation in face to face combat. Liberal educations have convinced them that talking will always bring understanding and peace and that we have “evolved” in America as civilized human beings so much as to make shedding blood for a cause archaic.
It’s true that our brave troops are doing a fantastic job in our military, but it remains to be seen what they’ll do when they must choose sides on their own soil. It’s so ironic that they’re giving their lives fighting to bring peace and freedom to a foreign nation when we’re losing them so fast here. We have hard times ahead. We need to pray that The Almighty strengthens us to do what has to be done.
It’s also true that we’re disorganized and scattered. All I know for sure is that my little “pocket” will go down fighting, not talking.
“There isn’t a fireman, cop, hands-on plumber, or carpenter in this country that has built an Apple, US Steel, or 3M. Not a one has worked out the math to put a man on the moon or written the software to analyze a DNA sequence. Without the inventors, researchers, and risk takers who did build those companies your precious unions would be clawing in the dirt with their bare hands. You have no idea what makes an economy run.”
Just for fun, would you list some scientists who analyze those DNA sequences, researchers or inventors who didn’t depend on government grants and loans(read: taxes from plumbers, firemen, policemen,etc) to do it?) Not fair going back to the likes of Edison and such. You were talking 3M and Apple.
I’m sure you know of some and I’m genuinely interested in the information. I can’t yet put my finger on why your theory sounds off a bit to me.
Just off the top of my head, I'll start with Alex Zaffaroni.
AMEN, AMEN and AMEN!
The American Revolution was started by a few willing to unite and take up the mantle of leadership, before too long multitudes fell into ranks, it was done before and it can be done again when free thinkers and faith subverts ignorance and fear.
We just have to focus on it and get it done...
Oh, Zapharoni! Of course he depended heavily on investors to fund his business startups. And those companies would have been nothing without workers to bring them. Many of them were probably simple working people. I don’t understand your apparent distain for the common person. I’d be willing to agree that unions have overstepped their usefulness. But your attitude towards the working public goes beyond that.
My first comment on this thread was in post 26: "Gosh, As if the entrepreneurs, independent tinkerers, resource prospectors, and researchers had nothing to do with it!"
Those VC guys who take big risks were on MY list of people who matter in addition to the bewailed proletariat. They are essential to a free market. So, that's ME winning this argument, not the proto Marxist populism to which I was responding.
And those companies would have been nothing without workers to bring them.
I never said workers weren't important, but that they are no more essential, which was the point of the post to which I was responding in the first place. You did read the whole thread, didn't you?
I don’t understand your apparent distain for the common person.
I said I have worked side by side with them, in a way that few in my profession and with my education would do. See post 32. I can and have performed the bulk of their skills, having worked in restoring antique boats during college wherein I had to be expert in joinerwork, plumbing, as a mechanic, welding, and machining... even sewing. I've done work far more unpleasant and unsafe than most any worker would ever tolerate, and still do.
Next bogus contention?
I’d be willing to agree that unions have overstepped their usefulness. But your attitude towards the working public goes beyond that.
Try reading the whole thread. You are dead wrong. Those people with whom I worked (particularly the machinists and electricians) have been lifelong friends. What I won't tolerate is disparagement of the professional class in order to elevate craft skills.
I do enjoy a good debate! However I often engage without knowing enough about my opponent. Had I done so this time, I wouldn’t have wasted the effort. It’s a good thing you have some basic skills to go along with all that professional know how. It looks like you might need them soon.
I use them all upon occasion, but around a single project of far more consequence.
Ying and Yang are out of balance?
Your acres are indeed beautiful. I read a great deal of your material. It shows that you and your family have put many hours of hard work into what you believe.
However, I have an entirely different perspective and set of beliefs as to the subject of the environment. I truly hope that in all the work of “managing” that you and your family have time to enjoy the blessing of such a beautiful setting. Peace to you and them.
Consider this and get back to me (there's a lot more where that came from).
I truly hope that in all the work of “managing†that you and your family have time to enjoy the blessing of such a beautiful setting. Peace to you and them.
I have a novel observation on the historical response surface of redwood to climate change due to the Little Ice Age. Today, as I was "managing" I noticed a lump in the ground under the duff. It was another old stump, whose condition fits exactly that hypothesis as it is considerably smaller than the second growth trees we have now. Virtually all of the old stumps are like that here, especially as one climbs in elevation above the marine inversion. It's hard to see such things without stirring things up.
Stirring things up is what humans do. It has important ecological benefits; in fact, the system proceeds to decadence and destruction without it, as anthropogenic influence has been part of this landscape for at least 10,000 and possibly 30,000 years. In a way, the system proceeds to catastrophic failures without it.
Part of the beauty is the science and research involved in appreciating what we see, in addition to the aesthetic. If you can't see by those photographs a deep love for beauty...
“What I won’t tolerate is disparagement of the professional class in order to elevate craft skills.”
That, in a nutshell, is the crux of why we two will never agree on principle no matter how interesting some of your work is. That you are a craftsman of some skill is obvious. But knowledge and expertise is useless without wisdom. True wisdom begins with the fear of The Almighty. In all your learned thesis about the necessity of environmental engineering; you never once give credit, acknowledgement or praise to The Architect of it all. Without that all your strivings are just vapor.
And with that I will respectfully disagree with you on the foundation of your view and move on.
Move to NE Tennessee. I hear lots of people talking about a revolution and getting well-armed and well-stocked. That’s why we moved here, I have to admit. Where I was in mexifornia, people were content with the status quo and wouldn’t want their comfortable life disturbed.
Awesome post!
You didn't look around the site much. I'd suggest you take a gander at this before making that judgment and then remember Matthew 10:16. As yourself why it was me who found that teaching and not the religious scholars of the world.
You see, I have to be careful to keep the technical and the spiritual at sufficient distance as to get those who would blow off what I do have to say on the topic before they get the sense that I do know whereof I speak. It's part of being effective in the place I live so that the light shines before men, at which point I can begin to reveal much that has been lost in the Word for over 3,000 years. I've been blessed with more revelation of more ecological content from the Torah than perhaps anyone alive, particularly insofar as the pastoral theme infusing the Torah as is reflected in the Gospels. As a clue for you, try explaining why the first humans to be told of the Messiah's birth were shepherds.
The Lord loves ALL of His Creation, which is what we were to bring to fullness in His true First Commandment: Genesis 1:28.
Ying and Yang are out of balance?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Its the People ( Yin) out of balance with the government and the political elite class ( Yang).
This oine has the makings of the French Revolution, and the only question is, what will the modern equivalent to the guillotine be? Any guesses there Fred?
I’d be happy to settle for a Ceausescu moment.
Televised.
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